In a message dated 4/3/00 4:08:56 AM Central Daylight Time,
bradbury@genebee.msu.su writes:
> I'll buy the "aesthetic nostalgia" argument, but can you come
> up with a "rational" argument for leaving useful computronium
> in a nonuseful form at the bottom of a gravity well?
EVENTUALLY? No. But having just read a fairly in-depth (pardon the pun)
account of the geological work that was done by the Apollo lunar explorers, I
can say that 1) there is a LOT to learn from in-situ, fine-grained
exploration of just about every planetary body and 2) it's impossible to
predict what we CAN learn from such investigation a priori. Is such
knowledge more valuable than what we can do with the computronium in the
meantime? I don't know, but eternity is a LONG time . . .
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